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The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle

Posted by samzenpus on from the small-pilots dept.

Victor Cheng writes "In developments that bring together a variety of technologies including robotics and digital imaging the Wasp Micro Air Vehicle is one of the Pentagon's latest tools currently in testing of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (although I'm thinking its not going to need a carrier to get this one up and flying). The 13 inch Wasp comes equipped with 2 video cameras, GPS and has a myriad of possible applications. Next time you hear something Buzzing around when you're at a family picnic you might think twice before swatting it could be an expensive action."

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  1. Yesterday's News by amigoro · · Score: 5, Informative
    The story is more than 2 years old.

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    1. Re:Yesterday's News by dpmapping · · Score: 4, Informative

      reading the mithuro story, it seems that this is WASP v2. The earlier article was aircraft only, these ones can see as well as fly!

  2. Re:One possible application by amanox · · Score: 4, Informative

    You probably don't need a lot of spotters if you have the right video recognition software. A human can only watch so may screens at once, while software does not have this problem.
    Spotters will only have to watch video-fragments that the sofware recognizes as being potential hits.
    This could speed up and reduce cost of those search-actions a lot.